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This rigorous yet readable study shows how the anarchist movement arose out of the debates and conflicts within the First International. It tracks how anarchist tendencies in the International became more pronounced over time, often going head-to-head with the Marxists in struggles over how best to achieve freedom and equality for workers. It provides an important corrective to much of the scholarship on this topic, as most English-language histories of the First International have been written from a Marxist perspective.

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Robert Graham is the editor of the three-volume anthology of anarchist writings from ancient China to the present day, Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. He has been writing about anarchism for over thirty years, beginning with his work on the anarchist newsjournal, Open Road, which was the largest circulation English language anarchist paper of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has published numerous articles on the development of anarchist theory, including the introduction to Proudhon's General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century, and essays on the role of contract in anarchist ideology, Marxism and anarchism, social ecology, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky, and Colin Ward.

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